Involutions, classical groups, and buildings (Q5945122)

\textit{C. W. Curtis, G. I. Lehrer}, and \textit{J. Tits} [Invent. Math. 58, 201-210 (1980; Zbl 0435.20024)] constructed a variation of the Tits building. The Curtis-Lehrer-Tits building \({\mathcal L}(G,k)\) of a connected reductive \(k\)-group \(G\) is a functor from the category of reductive groups defined over the field \(k\) and monomorphisms to the category of topological spaces and inclusions. If \(s\) is a semisimple element of the group \(G(k)\) of \(k\)-rational points and \(G'\) is the connected component group of the centralizer of \(s\), then the fixed point set \({\mathcal L}(G,k)^s\) of \(s\) in \({\mathcal L}(G,k)\) is the Curtis-Lehrer-Tits building \({\mathcal L}(G',k)\). The authors generalize this result to arbitrary involutions of \(\Aut_k(G)\). A similar result in affine buildings is also given.